KOTOVSK SSM TRAINING FACILITY KOTOVSK, USSR

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• Publication Date: November 1, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION REPORT
KOTOVSK
SSM TRAINING FACILITY
KOTOVSK, USSR
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KOTOVSK SSM TRAINING FACILITY
KOTOVSK, USSR
Kotovsk SSM 'braining Facility is located
at 47-46N 029-33E, immediately northeast of
Kotovsk Army Barracks Northeast AL 1, which
is on the northeast edge of Kotovsk (Figures 1
and 2). The facility probably is used in training
troops in the techniques of maneuvering and
positioning missile-related equipment. It was
previously reported as a possible ammunition
storage area. 1
The facility is in a heavily wooded ravine
which provides visual protection from the sur-
rounding countryside. No security fence or wall
is evident, but a probable guardhouse is near the
entrance to the facility. The only access to the
facility is by a hard-surfaced, all-weather road
from the barracks area. Rail facilities are located
in Kotovsk and a spur serves the barracks area.
The facility (Figure 3) consists of 2 launch
pads, a possible launch pad on which construction
has been suspended, a missile-ready building, a
control/support building, a probable missile-
ready tent, a small building of undetermined
function, and the probable guardhouse.
The construction has been 25X1 D
suspended and the area may have been intended 25X1 D
as a turnaround and parking area.
In -clearing had begun for the 25X1 D
missile-ready building and by
the building was under construction. The control/
NPIC L-6001 (11/66)
FIGURE 1. LOCATION OF KOTOVSK ARMY BARRACKS NORTHEAST AL 1 AND SSM TRAINING FACILITY, KOTOVSK, USSR.
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support building was constructed between
The probable guardhouse and the small
unidentified building cannot be negated because
of their small sizes and the dense vegetation.
They may have been present since the first
coverage of the facility.
The area indicated by dotted lines is prob-
ably where the probable missile-ready tent was
originally erected. It cannot be determined when
the position was changed.
Unidentified equipment has been a
facilit intermittently since at least
age, missile-related equipment can be identified
(Figure 4). At the middle launch pad are an
erected SS-4 missile, an SS-4 transporter, an
SS-4 erector with prime mover, an SS-4 fuel
transport trailer, 2 SS-4 oxidizer transport trailers.
and a probable hydrogen peroxide transporter.
,Near the loop road for the middle pad is an
SS-4 erector with a prime mover. At the eastern
pad are an SS-4 erector with a prime mover, a
probable launch stand, and a transporter of an
unidentified type. At least 3 unidentified vehicles/
pieces of equipment are also at the facility.
coverage _ prior to the most 25X1 D
overage, most of the equipment
missions have covered the arm
was in the same position except that there was
no erected missile.
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US Air Target Chart, Series 200, Sheet 0250-211L, 3d ed, Jan 63 (SECRET)
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1. NPIC. TCS-80278/65, Soviet Military Order of Battle, Odessa MD, Mar 65 (TOP SECRET RUFF)
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